Roaring 20s

The Lost Generation

By kgauntt
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    Marcus Garvey

    founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
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    Langston Hughes

    He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
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    Glenn Curtis

    founder of The US Aircraft industry
  • Sussex Pledge

    Sussex Pledge
    was a promise Germany made to the US before the war.
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    The Great Migration

    thousands of African Americans moved to the north. Although it gave them jobs, conditions in houses were bad as well as work.
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    John J. Pershing

    Led the united states to victory against Germany in WW1
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    Alvin York

    one of the most decorated soldiers in WWI. He was drafted into the Army
  • Battle of the Argonne Forest

    Battle of the Argonne Forest
    was the final and the largest battle fought by the AEF in World War I.
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    Harlem Renaissance

    the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem
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    jazz music

    Originated from African Americans, emerged in the Harlem Renaissance
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The treaty that ended WWI. Put the blame on Germany.
  • Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”

    Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
    hardling's argument in the election, that made him win the election. everything would return to normal after wolrd war 1
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Charles Lindbergh
    flew a plane across the Atlantic
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    Th great depression

    A time period when the American economy crashed
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    The Dust Bowl

    A period of time where the plains were under a huge drought, which dried out the dirt and the wind picked it up causing dust storms.
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    the 32nd president, that started things to help the needy and the poor.
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    The New Deal

    The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange
    best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration.
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    red scare

    promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponent